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2018

Monthly Archives Category Total: 21.
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Quashon Avent

JFK and Far-right Conspiracy Rhetoric

The assassination of President Kennedy has not been solely the preoccupation of figures on the Left. Almost from the beginning certain groups on the Right have also focused on the murder of JFK. In th...

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James DiEugenio

The Crimes of Quillette

Carrying forward his response to Fred Litwin on Garrison, Jim DiEugenio turns his unrelenting critical eye on Quillette, an organ of the alt-right which not only published an article based on Litwin's...

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James DiEugenio

Jim Garrison vs. Fred Litwin: The Beat Goes On (part 2)

“Anytime someone goes after Garrison, I will be there,” Jim DiEugenio has assured us. So it is with the latest attempt, this time by Fred Litwin, to recirculate those all-too-familiar, sta

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Christopher J. Hurley

Kennedy and Indochina

We are pleased to reprint here an excerpt from an MA thesis, The Imperial Imperative: John F Kennedy and US Foreign Relations, presented at University of Kent at Canterbury, which the author has graci...

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William Kelly

Walter Machann Interview Synopsis

Bill Kelly presents excerpts of interviews conducted by Gayle Nix Jackson with Father Walter Machann, friend and confidant of Silvia Odio, concerning, among other things, her famous late September, 19...

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Vasilios Vazakas

Creating the Oswald Legend – Part 2

In the second part of this multi-part series, Vasilios examines Oswald’s links to CIA-sponsored or CIA-connected anti-communist organizations and figures, and asks if it is possible that Oswald ...

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Paul Bleau

The Three Failed Plots to Kill JFK, Part 2

Paul Bleau continues his exploration of failed plots and potential patsies, adding several candidates, discussing their profiles and drawing some tentative conclusions concerning the nature of their

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James DiEugenio

Jim Garrison: The Beat Goes On

In response to a recent article which he characterizes as “a compendium of every MSM caricature of Garrison and his Kennedy case that one can imagine”, Jim DiEugenio revisits the New Orlea...

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Milicent Cranor

More Proof JFK Was Hit From the Front

Secret Service agent Glen Bennett saw something small but extraordinary that indirectly proves a shot from the front. Too bad he was discredited, and for quite illogical reasons. ...

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Rex Bradford

2017 & 2018 JFK Releases: Progress, Issues, Recommendations

Rex Bradford of the Mary Ferrell Foundation gave a report recently on the progress of the JFK declassification process as it stands today.  As he notes, if Donald Trump had not intervened, he wou...

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David Mantik

The Omissions and Miscalculations of Nicholas Nalli

From Dr. Mantik's conclusions: “Nalli runs into surprisingly many buzz-saws. If even one critical assumption is seriously wrong, his conclusion cannot stand. This review has demonstrated several...

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James Norwood

Edmund Gullion, JFK, and the Shaping of a Foreign Policy in Vietnam

The history of the Vietnam War is invariably delineated by historians as a continuum of escalating involvement from the administrations of Eisenhower through Nixon. This essay by Prof. Norwood challen...

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James DiEugenio

The Tippit Case in the New Millennium

In this dense and expertly synthesized review, Jim DiEugenio shows how more recent evidence has caused our understanding of the Tippit murder and its relationship to the assassination to evolve. ...

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Milicent Cranor

Biological Map in JFK’s Neck Points to South Knoll

If the bullet wound in John Kennedy’s throat was an entrance, then of course the shot came from the front. But that small hole in the skin, when viewed in relation to the neck’s internal d...

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Paul Bleau

The CIA and Mafia’s “Cuban American Mechanism” and the JFK Assassination

As with many things, Jim Garrison was the first investigator to elucidate a three-sided conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy, the three participants being the CIA, the Cuban exiles, and the Mob...

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James DiEugenio

Does Paul Street get paid for this junk?

Jim DiEugenio carefully takes apart and corrects another misguided and misinformed attempt by Paul Street to characterize JFK as economically anti-progressive, complicit with southern racists, and a m...

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James DiEugenio

Noam Chomsky Needs an Intervention

Once again, the factual basis of Chomsky's statements is allowed to go unchecked by his interviewers, as Jim DiEugenio demonstrates in yet another critique of his praxis of historical elision and dist...

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Milicent Cranor

Ricochet of a Lie

Milicent Cranor addresses the question of JFK's throat incision, bringing to light the fact that it was, and is, standard procedure to make a fairly wide incision when penetrating trauma to the throat...

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James DiEugenio

Alec Cockburn Lives: Matt Stevenson, JFK and CounterPunch

CounterPunch  is at times a valuable journal. But apparently they cannot outgrow the legacy of Alec Cockburn. What he represented on Kennedy and Vietnam was a gross distortion of historical fact,...

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James DiEugenio

Paul Street meets Jane Hamsher at Arlington

Jim DiEugenio responds to a recent hit piece which uses Joe Kennedy III's State of the Union reply as a platform from which to launch yet another doctrinaire and uninformed attack on JFK and RFK, clai...

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Michael Le Flem

The Enemy Within: The Rise and Fall of the Alliance for Progress

One of the lesser appreciated programs instituted by President Kennedy, the Alliance for Progress, intended as a way of freeing Latin America from the yoke of U.S. and European entrepreneurial exploit...

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